"They want us to finally pass commonsense gun safety legislation, so no one has to fear being hurt or killed while at school, at work, or at their place of worship," Northam said hours after the
election results.
The
United States has seen a steady stream of mass shootings in recent years, including the massacre of 58 people at a
Las Vegas country
music concert in 2017, and a pair of back-to-back shootings this past summer in
Texas and Ohio that left 22 dead.